I think I mentioned this over a year ago or whenever Patrick took over. PP isn't looking for a discussion. They have their minds and direction firmly made up... until that idea fails... say a week, sometimes 2, and then they make up their minds again. After enough mud throwing hoping some will stick they end up reaching from the same spot they did a year ago but have forgotten that the idea failed then and there's even less reason that it will succeed now.

Until the top brass push this group aside, nothing meaningful is going to come. What makes things worse is that Party have used up some good will over the past year by trying players patience and they've burned through a pile of money that shareholders might not want duplicated. So in the end Party might end up with the situation they were in 3 years ago.

As a player I can't begin to say how disappointed I am with the outcome. With the marketing spend and brand recognition that Party has they could already have surpassed Pokerstars for "real poker" over the past year but instead have made only moderate headway which is now faltering. The player pickups they've managed to acquire have little loyalty to the brand and will dump ship at the first moment that their interests are not served.

Example- ask Farseer if he'd play on Party without the leaderboards? The answer is a fast no I'm sure and by catering to this player type they will have no customers once the rug gets pulled.

I have no doubt that once competent management comes to play that things will get better but some damage will take longer to fix then the simple things... like a realistic MTT schedule designed to cater for a balanced player pool along with a RB system that will be more profitable for 95% of the players (and the site).

The players playing long (3 years or more) on PP are the most pissed off and disappointed i guess.... New are comers are very versatile and looking at he product now, they aren t going to stick long......

Leonard should be hanged by the balls for incompetency and constant fake promises. As he mentioned if failling he should clean cars on DTD parking instead of sticking around

The buy ins / amount of MTT per hour / is now equal to 2016.... with worse structures..... Thanks a lot guys

Exact current schedule - no. But as I told earlier, I would anytime take 2015 schedule with no leaderboards >>> current schedule with leaderboards.

Haven't been playing many leaderboards this year anyways, current schedule is too costly (would need not a small 6-figs bankroll to do it completely on my own) and too demanding (you need to start session around 2 pm afternoon and end it around 7 am). After studies start zero chance in hell I will be able to play that. Current leaderboard is effectively added rakeback to most hardcore HS regs who are able to fire lots of bullets @ 530+ events, unfortunately I am not (in terms of bankroll) one of them.

I did play a lot @ Party already before leaderboards, but currently there's 0 playable tournaments. Back in the days we had lots of rebuys, PLO8 tournaments, good satellites and tournaments which didn't start with 200bb and required that you play them from a start (PKOs).

There's been occasional nice additions to schedule during 2 years. None of the additions lasted more than few weeks max.

LOL @ 1.4 billion chips being in play in an MTT currently running, thanks to 200K starting stacks being implemented.

IMO, ridiculous numbers to have to play with and gives of an amateurish impression similar to that of a play money site...

BTW you don t fool anybody by saying GTD s are up Vs the past. Only certain times of the day they stay higher right now...

Example :
141178011 Featherweight: The Jab II - $2.5K Gtd (PartyPoker)
$5+$0.5
NL Hold'em Multi Entry.
Entrants:343
Date:07/28/2017
Start was 0:00 CET

If you look at tomorrow 0:00 CET or one hour before
GTD is 1K or 2.5K for the bounty

So where is the improvement ???

Been on holiday for a week and come back to find the schedule completely changed again, amazing how often this seems to happen.

I agree with the whole post and I think the bolded part sums up Party's entire attitude. I have said it before but Party are so lucky that Stars made so many unpopular moves that people desperately wants to stay loyal to them. There is a time where people would not have stood up for all the botting/leaderboard collusion/association with staking groups but because of the climate most people (including myself) are much more willing to overlook it. The schedule flips every two weeks and every time it's claimed that it's based on player feedback which for obvious reason is disingenuous unless majority feedback magically changes at all times. I wish Party did what MPN is doing in their thread and posted a list of updates to the schedule every time they occur, would be amazing to see how many things have been changed around (with little to no success) since this threads inception.

Also I didn't play in it but absolutely disgusting how the guarantee was reduced for the series event, especially the nonchalant attitude that the alternative would have been to cancel it. Reminds me of when re-entry was added to the 5k main AFTER people have already satellited in to avoid overlay. How about doing the right thing and honor the guarantee, why was that not an option? I don't usually really want to point to specific ambassadors because it's mostly not productive but this seems to sum up Party's attitude perfectly. Misdirection and flawed logic, a world where reducing the guarantee of a series tournament is the same as reducing the guarantee of a daily that hasn't been announced. Or where raising the guarantees on tournaments you know will over perform somehow justifies



I know it fall on deaf ears at this point but just so disappointed with the site after it had so much promise. I don't think you will ever learn that people would rather have a trustworthy site with smaller prize pools than one with a completely unsustainable schedule and guarantees that either rely on affiliations with stables, outright welching on your promises and slipping in extra re-entries every time you want to make sure you hit a guarantee.

Now just imagine having a 500k starting stack, it will be so beautiful..

The changes ARE based on players feedback, they see what people want and then they do the exact opposite cause they are the fkn boss and can do whatever they want

I dont like your last Tournament Schedule Change. I am playing on Party since 1 Month and you have changed Your Schedule 3 or 4 Times.
Bring Back Re-Entry on the Bounty Events. Bring Back 100k Starting Stack for some Events.
Why have you removed the Kickoff? Very good Tournament with $22 and $55 (for me and lower), reentry possible - great Tournament
200k Stacks are not worth Playing from the Beginning without reentry. I am now starting every Tournament one hour later. I love winamax because You Know what You get. You can log in and know what Tournaments to Play. These changes every weak, Tournaments and GTDs are very bad in the Long Run. I am not a recreational. But I have been one, and I would be very pissed If I come home early from work Ready to Play the Kickoff / and now ist not there anymore. Deep Struktures at Primetime are nice to Play but If you have to get up early for work - you cant Play them. You dont have any Turbo Tournament between 19:30 and 21:30 (at Primetime)

So now that $22 $50k gtd has changed to 6pm and $33 buy in?

Really unhappy w the new schedule.

Ok, there finally is a decent gtd bounty mtt, but that's it. What about a decent FO?

Basically the new schedule just cut my party volume by 60-80%. And it already was only <20% of my total volume.

You're just making it hard for us to support the site when it basically was a homerun w Amaya chasing players away right into your arms.

Some proposals/comments on micro/low stakes:

1.) $1.1 $300 kick-off event at 4pm CET is not very attractive. It is very hard to digest $300 gtd at early peak hours; $300 gtd is competitive against your rivals (888 has $1 $500 turbo goldfish at 4pm). Please offer $1.5 $750gtd/1k instead (for micro fish there are no difference between $1.1 and $1.5 buy-ins). Also $7.5 3k-4k gtd kick-off would have been better than $5.5 2k.

2.) Please switch 9.30pm CET daily rebuys with 8.30pm CET hypers. Your 9.30pm rebuy has 7 minute lvl and it will probably run for 7 hours or more (until 4.30am at least) which is too much for small field micro/low tournaments. 9.30pm is better than 8.30pm for 6 max hypers because they require a lot of attention (at 9.30pm people will have less tables than at 8.30pm).

3.) Your $11 6max bounty hunter at 9pm CET paid 17% from main prize pool to first. Slightly larger regular 8max tourney paid 17,8% to first. I am wondering whether there are some configuration mistake in tournament settings (your 6max tourney payouts seem to be flatter than 8max).

sunday schedule

1pm mix max
2pm 6 max
3pm 6 max
4pm mix max
7pm mix max
8pm 6 max

Who ever is in charge of this schedule is stealing a living, disgrace

after this post chances are very high that after the next schedule update the 5pm and 6pm slots will be also 6-max and mix-max.

I think a big part of the problem is that they insist on having tiers for every tournament so what might work for a small pool of HS players trickles down and ruins all the other different stake levels. I still don't understand who these mix max tournaments are for, I really like playing 6-max tournaments but don't think it's particularly fun that a tournament redraws and switches format in the middle.

I don't reg 6-max MTTS as a rule, have tried a few of the Mix Max just out of curiosity but I don't really like them.

My 2 cents worth.

Went to play small 'morning' session on party today and realissed they missing 8am slot tournaments, pls fix this. NO BH NO 6-max just normal 8-max re-entry

edit: I found out that they are trying new structured tournament and i think i just missed LR for 8am. Bizzare as i could still LR the 7ams at 9am

also pls stop making games under $10 PKO's

i tried beginn of the week 1 bountyhunter...got a ticket for it.
200k starting stack...1,1 buy in....25cent bountys....GREAT...lol! sarcasm!
this games should start with 2,2 or 3,3 buy in! and no 200k Chips...100k is ok-50k would be good. (funny how i accept for my self the 100 k starting stacks now...a year ago i never thougt i would ask for 100k starting stacks...)

200k starting stacks- no thank you! i dont Play the last days and will continue not playing partypoker anymore with this structures and bad tournaments!

Your not the only one...

The most recent changes (in particular - 200K starting stacks for the majority of MTT's, the removal of various buy-in levels - resulting in big jumps between buy-ins again and the majority of MTT's now being mix-max/deep) has resulted in my also having hardly played on PP over the last few days.

I have no intention of playing much on PP from here on in either, especially whilst these most recent changes are in effect and the schedule remains as it currently is. There's simply hardly anything left for me to want to play now.

PP have now gone back on a lot of the various good (and successful) changes they previously implemented based on player feedback (the extra buy-in levels being one example) and as far as i'm concerned, I now view PP as having undone a lot of the previous good work they had done to improve the MTT schedule overall.

I'll probably play a few selected MTT's when a major series is on but, when it comes to playing the everyday schedule in it's current state - no thanks, i'll be playing the majority of my poker elsewhere.

If the aim of these changes was to lose players PP, then congrats - if the above 2 posts are anything to go by, it seems your succeeding...

All - I have noted all feedback above and shared with the management team fore review and consideration

Thanks

Colette

Colette you keep saying management team, do the management have the knowledge on how to create tournament schedules and structures? Why are managers doing this? Shouldn't there be just 1 dedicated person with experience working on online tournaments?

On other threads it seems to be the site rep is the one asking for suggestions and making the changes themselves, here you are giving feedback to what seems like a group of people? Not bashing you at all i just think it would be better if there was 1 person working on the schedule.

i dont think the Management create the tournament schedule etc. !

they are the guys who are responsibility for everything at the end...and they Need the info/Feedback to be able to give new directions/decisions etc.

only 1 Person....for whatever it is....is never good! (and if it's 5 friends who do this Job it's not good too!)

you cant even look forward to their two next series, both ruined by a ridiculous amount of mix max

yes